8.  After this thou sayest, “and all thy service The form of renunciation before Baptism is given in the Apostolic Constitutions, VII. 41:  “I renounce Satan, and his works, and his pomps, and his services, and his angels, and his inventions, and all things that are under him.”  Cf. Tertull. De Spectaculis, § 4:  “When on entering the water, we make profession of the Christian faith in the words of its rule, we bear public testimony that we have renounced the devil, his pomp, and his angels.”.”  Now the service of the devil is prayer in idol temples; things done in honour of lifeless idols; the lighting of lamps Herod. ii. 62:  “At Sais, when the assembly takes place for the sacrifices (to Minerva, or Neith), there is one night on which the inhabitants all burn a multitude of lights in the open air round their houses.…These burn the whole night, and give to the festival the name of the Feast of Lamps (Λυχνοκαΐη).”, or burning of incense by fountains or rivers Fountains and rivers had each its own deity or nymph, to whom sacrifices were offered, and incense burned., as some persons cheated by dreams or by evil spirits do [resort to this ἐς τοῦτο διέβησαν.  These words are omitted in many mss., and regarded by the Benedictine Editor as a spurious addition made to complete the construction.  The words ἢ τοιαῦτα at the end of the sentence are better omitted, as in several good mss.], thinking to find a cure even for their bodily ailments.  Go not after such things.  The watching of birds, divination, omens, or amulets, or charms written on leaves, sorceries, or other evil arts Cat. iv. 37; Apost. Const. vi.:  “Be not a diviner, for that leads to idolatry.…Thou shalt not use enchantments or purgations for thy child.  Thou shalt not be a soothsayer nor a diviner by great or little birds.  Nor shalt thou learn wicked arts; for all these things has the Law forbidden.”  Deut. xviii. 10, 11., and all such things, are services of the devil; therefore shun them.  For if after renouncing Satan and associating thyself with Christ Apost. Const. vii. 41:  “And after his renunciation let him in his association (συντασσόμενος) say, I associate myself with Christ.”, thou fall under their influence, thou shalt find πειραθήσῃ (Cod. Mon. 1) is a better reading than πειρασθήσῃ.  Cf. Plat. Laches, 188 E:  τῶν ἔργων ἐπειράθην. the tyrant more bitter; perchance, because he treated thee of old as his own, and relieved thee from his hard bondage, but has now been greatly exasperated by thee; so thou wilt be bereaved of Christ, and have experience of the other.  Hast thou not heard the old history which tells us of Lot and his daughters?  Was not he himself saved with his daughters, when he had gained the mountain, while his wife became a pillar of salt, set up as a monument for ever, in remembrance of her depraved will and her turning back.  Take heed therefore to thyself, and turn not again to what is behind Phil. iii. 13.  On the pillar of salt, see Wisd. x. 7:  “Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony,…and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.”  Joseph. Ant. I. xi. 4:  “Moreover I have seen it, for it remains even unto this day.”  Bp. Lightfoot, Clem. Rom. Ep. ad Cor. xi. remarks that the region abounds in pillars of salt, and “Mediæval and even modern travellers have delighted to identify one or other of these with Lot’s wife.”, having put thine hand to the plough, and then turning back to the salt savour of this life’s doings; but escape to the mountain, to Jesus Christ, that stone hewn without hands Dan. ii. 35, 45., which has filled the world.